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00:00 A moment's silence of course for those who did lose their lives in Brazil.
00:08 Well over half a million displaced in the Rio Grande do Sul.
00:12 Chiedo does really well to pick the ball up. That's a foul but the referee allows play to go on.
00:18 The ball delivered into the box, surely, 1-0.
00:21 Surely, surely, surely.
00:26 And it looks like the big man, Franco Romero, who won the initial ball.
00:31 Wonderful play it really was. The move started earlier than this.
00:35 Is he offside? He may have just strayed a hair's breadth offside.
00:41 The ball in is quite magnificent from Antonio Galeano.
00:46 And Franco Romero does what all good defenders do in the opposition penalty area.
00:53 He heads it down. Ariel Galeano takes a swig from his bottle and looks on.
00:59 A pensive glance to his left from Ariel Galeano.
01:04 Well the body language of Rekoba can't quite tell what he's thinking.
01:15 He looks relatively relaxed.
01:18 Well he's onside. Now we've got one here again tonight as well.
01:23 And they come again.
01:25 Good play again from Galeano who provided the assist. Lays it back to Lozano.
01:32 Terrific cross into the box.
01:34 So much of the good work is coming down this right-hand side for Nacional.
01:43 Jim rolls the ball out with the sole of his right foot, Lozano.
01:48 And delivers quality into the box.
01:50 They were all conquering. Apertura, Klausura, Copa Paraguay, Supercopa Paraguay.
01:59 Here's some good play. What a decisive finish.
02:05 He fluffed his lines just moments ago did Oscar Cardoso.
02:10 Not this time. He finishes with aplomb.
02:14 Hits home. His third Copa Libertadores goal of 2024.
02:21 And it's too easy. He doesn't need to take a touch.
02:24 Just pulls off his defender. He's just a yard, half a yard from the penalty spot.
02:29 And he guides it home.
02:31 They chased and harried in that left corner.
02:33 Left corner from Libertad's point of view.
02:36 And they forced the ball just to be hooked forward to nobody.
02:40 Oh, and it's all kicking off here.
02:43 Barrero.
02:45 What a hands raised here from Barrero.
02:49 It's all kicking off. This is a game that doesn't mean anything particularly.
02:54 This is almost a dead rubber.
02:56 Don't go telling the players that.
02:59 It's Gaston Gonzalez who's on the floor clutching his face.
03:02 What have we got touching the face is another matter.
03:05 We do know the modern day footballer likes to try himself on the floor when barely touched.
03:10 It's the beauty of the modern game.
03:13 Let's see what materialises here.
03:23 Ariel Galeano.
03:25 Not particularly perplexed there. Doesn't really care too much about this.
03:28 Seems a little silly. There's a little bit of afters there, but nothing in it at all.
03:33 Oh, well, that's a head from Barrero.
03:37 That should be ascending off.
03:39 It's left here of normal time.
03:41 We'll have a good two or three minutes of additional time, one would imagine.
03:44 But here come Libertad.
03:46 Good ball played in and what a terrific finish.
03:52 I love that late run into the box from Silva.
03:56 And well, far too much time and space in the centre of the park.
04:02 And then it's an exquisite delivery.
04:05 It really is from Lorenzo Malgarrejo.
04:09 1-3-0 against Deportivo Tachira.
04:13 Oh, such a close effort there.
04:21 It should have been another. It should have been 2-2.
04:24 Underway and here we go.
04:27 Parraira.
04:34 Libertad come a-knocking once again.
04:43 Mellini hooks a lovely little ball in.
04:49 First corner of the game this now for Libertad.
04:53 I know they lead 2-1. Unusual not to have a corner.
04:56 Throughout the opening 50 minutes.
04:59 52 minutes in. First corner to Libertad.
05:03 In-swinger coming from Mendieta.
05:09 That looked like a foul.
05:12 Oh yes, I agree referee. That was a foul.
05:17 And again, the histrionics, the theatrics from the referee.
05:23 Absolutely love it.
05:25 Here is that foul.
05:29 Certainly looked like a foul anyway on the near post.
05:33 I'm not so sure there.
05:40 Until after the ball had gone over the goal line.
05:43 I don't think there's anything wrong from Cardoso.
05:46 Unless the ball hits his hand before it goes in.
05:50 I don't think that Cardoso trips over Benton Court.
05:53 I think Benton Court trips over his own player.
05:56 He does. He trips over Izquierdo.
05:58 And then this coming in.
06:00 Maybe that's where it hits the hand of Cardoso.
06:04 The referee's gone over to take a little look.
06:08 Strike coming in from Lorenzo Malgarrejo.
06:11 There we go.
06:17 No goal. Handball.
06:22 Left footed in swinger from Galeano.
06:36 Doesn't beat Pires at the near post.
06:38 Benton Court doesn't have the pace to catch up with that.
07:00 It's 6-1 Frey in those long legs.
07:02 Zabala. Nice touch with the inside of the left foot.
07:11 Decent ball scooped towards the penalty spot.
07:14 Here's Barrera.
07:15 That's a foul.
07:21 That's no more than about 23, 24 yards out.
07:25 Referee is certain.
07:35 Barrera, we know him from his Orlando City days.
07:40 He will fancy it.
07:41 That's a wild, wild slash at the ball.
07:51 I think that's the correct decision from the referee.
07:54 Michael Jage by the looks of it.
07:57 And again, it's getting a little bit silly down there on the field.
08:01 Quite why Luis Mejia has run 85 yards upfield.
08:06 I'll never know.
08:07 Absolutely no need at all.
08:10 Send him back into his goal.
08:13 Barrera is eyeing this up, as is Alexis Castro.
08:18 Barrera, you would thought, right footed.
08:20 Castro, left footed.
08:23 Zabala, just in there as well, almost in the wall himself.
08:27 Barrera, it is.
08:29 Very close to the goalkeeper.
08:32 Eighth corner of the game for Nacional.
08:38 Romero with the left footed swing and a miss.
08:46 Espinoza, Matias Espinoza, 26 years of age.
08:53 Looks like a real collision there.
08:56 Two head injuries.
09:01 Santander took it in the back of the head by the looks of it.
09:11 I didn't think there was anything untoward initially.
09:16 No.
09:19 Libertad 2, Nacional 1.
09:24 Franco Romero opened the score in the 13th minute.
09:28 Oscar Cardoso with the retort in the 29th.
09:32 And then Alejandro Silva.
09:34 [Music]